. >> mike: you guys have experienced what i think, mitt romney and paul ryan are experiencing now in a very profound way, that is that the media, can i say it charitybly, don't always play it even, would it be a fair assessment. >> absolutely. >> mike: you've experienced it and seen it and how do you confront that? what do you do when you know the media has cooked the story to mack you look bad and the other side look good. >> it happens all the time. you need to focus on the positive and you know you're telling the truth and you know the message that needs to be conveyed and you need to just stay the course. >> mike: mr. speaker, do you think the debate was a game changer either way for the governor or ryan, the first one i think we agree it was. >> aggressive and effective romney and obama didn't show up. it was one of his national security weekends. [laughter] >> so, i mean, first of all, i talked about it before and she made the point that if romney was as effective there as with me he'd be fine. he was more effected and nobody could have predicted the empty suit exhausted and in